Case studies
Akershus University Hospital
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Akershus University Hospital is a regional emergency hospital, serving 340.000 inhabitants in the north eastern suburbs of Oslo. All somatic functions will be in the new buildings which include some 565 beds, 22 operating theaters and 21 radiology labs. |
Barts Hospital
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Barts Hospital, which first opened in 1123, will become a Cancer and Cardiac Centre of Excellence. The Royal London Hospital, once home of the so-called ‘elephant man’, dates back to 1740 and will be largely rebuilt to include London’s leading trauma and emergency care centre, the capital’s second largest children’s hospital and one of Europe’s largest renal units, with London’s Air Ambulance, operating from the top of the new building. |
Haileybury Almaty
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Haileybury Almaty will be an all-through school providing a British education in Kazakhstan. Haileybury will prepare pupils for GCSE examinations and International Baccalaureate. The school is designed for an initial intake of 640 pupils with the ability to accommodate a maximum of 960 pupils.
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Canary Wharf
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The building is located at 5 Churchill Place, comprises approximately 30,000 m² with convenient access to the major facilities of Canary Wharf, the Jubilee Line and the Docklands Light Railway Station. It is arranged over four basement levels, ground and six trading floors. The façade is characterised by its mixture of granite and stainless steel. Depending on where it is viewed from it will appear stainless steel or a predominately stone building. Sustainability goals are foremost in the design. Built on a brownfield site, a BREEAM rating of ‘Excellent’ will be achieved.
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British Embassy, Jakarta
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The 3,800 m² scheme is designed over three levels and is located on a 1.5 hectare site in central Jakarta. The project is due to complete in 2011.
The design, expressed in a spiraling form, folds around a central protected courtyard and twists up and outwards to form the Embassy’s public entrance invoking a sense of calm assurance. Sustainability is a key design consideration and challenge: Jakarta is in a highly seismic zone with excessive humidity levels; rain falls for eight months a year. Currently the design has been assessed as Excellent under the BREEAM rating. Site security has also influenced the scheme and is the logic to the centrally located building footprint. |
bSI Newsletter No.12
